Greta Gerwig Quotes

Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying.

I think it's not about what you say; it's about what you don't say.

It's what people don't say that is often the most revealing.

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

Sometimes people give away more by not saying something.

Sometimes people say things and don't really know what they mean by what they're saying. Subconsciously, it might mean something different.

People are always giving you credit for really wanting to say more than you said.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie 'Fall on Your Knees', they were as much of a mystery to me as I was creating the story as they are to the readers.

When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said.

Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and sometimes be at odds with them.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

In dialogue scenes, my favorite moments are when people aren't talking because you can cut to the heart of the matter much more quickly, often with a look. People hide things in words. When you don't have words to hide things in, it becomes much more direct and much more immediate of a connection.

When I was growing up, you never knew whether people were being serious or not. There was a lot of nodding and winking.

We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.

No matter what you say in carefully chosen sentences, girls will detect both the spoken and unspoken messages.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

The body says what words cannot.

My father would often start to say something, then say 'Forget it.'

You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.

Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.